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Besides the topics of speaking became one of its causes, another reason to explain why the unplanned speech used more
complex sentences was the familiarity with the interlocutors. Thornbury 2005 states that the better you know the people you
are talking to, the easier it will be . Since all of the speeches were done outside the classroom, maybe the students felt more
comfortable and they did not have high anxieties. The relaxed speaking condition was also influenced the students performances,
including the use of sentences, simple or complex sentences.
d. Analysis on the Sentence Patterns of Planned and Unplanned Speeches with four T-units
There were five sentences with four T-units in the planned speech and six sentences in the unplanned speech. Below are two
examples: a. It s important to me, because we have a long day after we
graduated in our senior high school, so it s help us to remind all of our knowledge in English, and then besides that, it lead us to
have a basic skill about English to face another in our next semester and then about the difficult. Planned Speech
b. Eee paused I think the teacher is creative but maybe the
material is is eee
more difficult to understand, so paused
we can we say
we say that it hard to understand, but I think the material have a easy learning material. Unplanned Speech
A sentence with four T-units is a sentence which has three
coordinators, such as and, so, but, and or. That is why the two examples above were put in this category sentences with four T-
units, because both of them had three coordinators but, so, or, and. The sentence pattern used by the students in the planned
speaking was S V sub. S V . . . Subject + Verb + subordinator + Subject + Verb . . .. Meanwhile, the sentence pattern that tended to
be used by the students in the unplanned speaking was S V coord. S V . . . Subject + Verb + coordinator + Subject + Verb . . ..
Furthermore, it could also be analyzed that the students tended to use complex sentences both in the planned and unplanned
speeches. There were four complex sentences and only one simple sentence in the planned speaking, while five complex sentences
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and one simple sentence in the unplanned speaking. According to Eslbee Writers 2005, a complex sentence is a sentence which has
subjects, verbs, subordinators andor relative pronouns.
e . Analysis on the Sentence Patterns of Planned and Unplanned Speeches with five T-units
There were six sentences with five T-units in the planned speech and five sentences in the unplanned speech. Below are two
examples: a. Actually like the paused spirit I m talk about before and ghost is
I think not scare for me because it..I can see there, I can see them so it I m so biasa-biasa , because I think I can
I can t
see ghost, so it make me feel paused it s not make me feel scare and then paused I know some kind of ghost from Indonesia.
Planned Speech b. Yes, I pass it, but eee
I m a little disappointed, because in a test eee
when I paused eee paused eee when I join IC eee
in
test two and three I got mm A grade, but in the fourth IC
in the fourth test IC in usually
especially in the first structure eehh
in the last structure, I got paused maybe B and that s make my IC..that s make my grade
that s make my grade in IC is become
AB not A. Unplanned Speech
A sentence with five T-units is a sentence which has four
coordinators, such as and, so, but, and or. That is why the two examples above were put in this category sentences with five T-
units, because both of them had four coordinators but, so, and. The sentence pattern used by the students in the planned and
unplanned speaking was same, i.e. S V coord. S V . . . Subject + Verb + coordinator + Subject + Verb . . .. Additionally, it could be
generalized that the planned speaking used simple and complex sentences in a balanced way, while the unplanned speaking used
more complex sentences than the simple one. According to Eslbee Writers 2005, a complex sentence is a sentence which has subjects,
verbs, subordinators andor relative pronouns, hence it could be concluded that there were three simple sentences and three complex
sentences in the planned speaking, and two simple sentences and three complex sentences in the unplanned speaking performance.
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f. Analysis on the Sentence Patterns of Planned and Unplanned Speeches with six T-units
